Irish your post is dan tacky in light of the real submarine history of Pearl Harbor.
Where is that Dan Kimo when ya need him?
The Japs sent a sub that the US navy sank one hour before the surprise air attack.

It's not a matter of being PC or not. If I use the word n***** to refer to a black person, am I simply being non-PC?

Somehow I doubt that a newspaper in Honolulu would use the word "Jap" in an article, unless they're directly quoting from something that written before or during WWII. Provide a link to prove me wrong.

What I want to know is: What are we going to do about the serious lack of Dans in the teaching profession. my survey clearly shows that I am the only Dan currently working in ESL. This can surely only be put down to massive anti-Dan discrimination.

This is a short-sighted approach from employers who are failing to capitalise on the extensive pool of talent that people called Dan represent. The only solution as far as I can see is positive discrimination so to all you employers out there, next time you have a well-paid teaching job, give it to a bloke called Dan!

Maybe there should be some sort of Dan quota, every employer should have at least one Dan in their employ.

Sorry, Dan, I know that the lack of Dans in ESL is a pressing issue, but I've been provoked.

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Frankly Lucy I do not give a rip what you chose to believe or not believe and if you want to prove me wrong, do your own GDF research. I stand by my post

You raised the issue, my dear, by using a frankly racist term in your post and saying that you read it in a Honolulu newspaper. Again, I find it hard to believe that a newspaper in Hawaii, with its large Japanese population, would use the term "Jap" in an article. If you're standing by your post, then give me a link (or at least the name of the paper and the issue date) so I can see for myself. Couldn't be simpler.

I've always regarded the term as a simple abbreviation and not as something "frankly racist." Then again, I'm not Japanese.
Are there any Japanese teachers out there who can give us their opinion of it?